TUC: Royal wedding shows we need more bank holidays

Wednesday 29 Nov 2017 @ 14:25
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Responding to calls from Conservative and Labour MPs for a bank holiday to mark the royal wedding in May 2018, TUC General Secretary Frances O’Grady said:

“Workers in the UK put in billions of hours of unpaid overtime every year. Whether royalists or republicans, they have earned a day off.

“We have fewer public holidays than the rest of Europe. Only Romania gets less of a break.

“Britain deserves more bank holidays – and not just for next year’s royal wedding.”

Editors note

TUC research from 2007 on public holidays: www.tuc.org.uk/sites/default/files/extras/communityday.pdf
TUC research from February on unpaid overtime: www.tuc.org.uk/news/workers-uk-put-£336-billion-worth-unpaid-overtime-year

Original article link: https://www.tuc.org.uk/news/royal-wedding-shows-we-need-more-bank-holidays-says-tuc

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